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Well, Ophiuchus seems to have a lot of people stummped. I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how we lovers of Astrology can implement this 13th sign that’s supposedly been hidden from the science; or should we worry about incorporating it at all?

It’s not that anyone is “stumped”. It’s just that this whole thing is a non-issue. Every once in a while some scientist/skeptic/insecure individual decides that s/he has to “save” all us silly astrologers from ourselves and they bring up the precession and/or Ophiuchus as “proof” of the error of our ways – but the fact is that, as the Bard would say, this is much ado about nothing.

We’ve known about precession for a VERY long time. In fact there is an entire branch of astrology that already corrects for precession. It’s called sidereal astrology.

The so-called 13th sign of the Zodiac is old news as well. Ophiuchus is a constellation, NOT a sign. Astrology is not based on constellations, it is based on the seasons. While the signs are a convenient way to divide the year, they needn’t correspond to the constellations that bear the same names.

bravo! love this explanation.
it was a non-issue for me as well, and i felt that astrology already accounted for it all.
ophiucus, aside from having a constellation, also needs a planet and a house; ophicus has been around for eons without a house or planet and has been functioning fine.